Fleksy, an alternative keyboard, promises accuracy so precise even those who are blind can use it. The autocorrect system works so users can type without looking at the phone and even takes it a step further: you can type without the touchscreen keyboard.

Using the QWERTY layout, users tap on the screen and the text prediction software detects the word you meant to enter, even if you missed every key. Swiping gestures replace function keys such as delete or the spacebar, since the keyboard consists only of letters.

Syntellia, a recently-launched startup that developed the keyboard, debuted a new version of the patent-pending technology at CES 2013. Within hours of its beta version announcement, more than 5,000 people registered to receive the app. Fleksy was also named a finalist in SxSW's Interactive Accelerator competition.

Ioannis Verdelis, Syntellia's founder, explains the keyboard was born out of company members' own frustrations with autocorrect. The technology started out as an application for the visually impaired, and has a feature that speaks words back to you. Watch the video, below, to see how it works.

Other apps like Android's SwiftKey and iPhone's VoiceOver mode speed up touchscreen typing, but Verdelis says Fleksy's users can type as quickly as they do on a laptop. Instead of asking users to learn something new, the "flexible system" adjusts to familiar habits.

"Rather than looking specially at what buttons the users press, the way other systems do, we designed technology from the ground up specifically for touchscreens," Verdelis tells Mashable. "It analyzes patterns, the context of what you're writing, and looks at the structure of the English language to make predictions."

Currently its creators are working on additions to the keyboard application, including integration with other apps. It's available as a stand-alone app on iOS and in beta version for Android as a system-wide keyboard.

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